Good morning,
Today’s forecast for Whitewater calls for a chance of thunderstorms, with a high temperature of eighty-six degrees.
The Friday Comment forum topic for today will be ‘top ten favorite films of all time.’ I’ve found it hard to create a list with only ten, but it’s been fun trying.
Herman Leonard, renowned photographer of America’s jazz musicians, passed away this week. His photographs were only recognized years after they were first taken, but in the 1980s he received the recognition his photos deserved. The New York Times recalled his accomplishments earlier this week:
Herman Leonard, an internationally renowned photographer whose haunting, noirish images of postwar jazz life became widely known only in the late 1980s, died on Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 87. A resident of Pasadena, Calif., Mr. Leonard died after a short illness, said Geraldine Baum, the director of Herman Leonard Photography. Mr. Leonard never set out to document the birth of bebop, though he wound up doing just that. He was simply a young jazz lover whose camera gave him entree into the many New York clubs — the Royal Roost, Birdland, Bop City — whose cover charges he could not afford.
A slideshow of his photographs is available at the New York Times website.